Photographs

Containers:

Box 18

Component identifier:

Series 11

Content Summary:

This series is housed in Folders 48-49.

The series contains copies of early photographs, including those of Boyd's parents, and one of Martin Boyd with his brothers Mervic and Penleigh and their grandmother. There are several taken during the First World War and the early 1920s including one of Barbara Boynton. Those taken at West Wittering in the late 1920s and early 1930s include one of Roger Hone (ch. 18, Day of My Delight). A few photographs are from Boyd's Cambridge period including one of Boyd at his desk at Plumstead, Little Eversden; and a few date from the years he spent in Rome.

There are also photographs taken in 1982 of buildings and places in England and Rome, which are associated with Boyd; Penleigh House and churches associated with the a'Beckett family in Westbury and West Lavington, Wiltshire; Dane Court and Lee Priory, Kent; Middle Chase farm and the barn Boyd designed for his cousin, Isla Marsh, at Bowerchalke, near Salisbury; the Friary, Hilfield, and neighbourhood of Batcombe, Dorset; houses where Boyd lived or stayed in the West Wittering area, Sussex; views of Pilsey Island (Silver Island in The Lemon Farm) and Itchenor Harbour; views of Plumstead, Little Eversden and other houses Boyd rented during his years in Cambridge, 37 St James Terrace, London; and the English Centre, Pensione Alto Adige (Boyd's last residence) and his grave in the English Cemetery in Rome. A number of negatives and several postcards are included in this series.

Names:

Martin Boyd

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